Shintaro Abe

Shintaro Abe (29 April 1924-15 May 1991) was Foreign Minister of Japan from 27 November 1982 to 22 July 1986, succeeding Yoshio Sakurauchi and preceding Tadashi Kuranari. He was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, and his son Shinzo Abe would also enter LDP politics, twice serving as Prime Minister.

Biography
Shintaro Abe was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1924, the son of Seiyukai Party politician Kan Abe. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, and he worked as a journalist before winning his father's seat in the House of Representatives in 1958 as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. He led a major conservative faction of the LDP, as Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone made Abe his Foreign Minister in 1982. In 1987, although Abe was seen as a likely candidate in the LDP leadership election, he stepped aside in favor of Noboru Takeshita, who headed a more powerful faction of the party. He instead became Secretary-General of the LDP, and he was forced to resign in 1988 due to an insider trading and corruption scandal within the party. Abe died in 1991; his son Shinzo Abe became Prime Minister 15 years later.